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Displaying 15 of about 19 resultsThis report assesses the preparedness of the Department of Defense (DOD) to supporting civil authorities in the event of a domestic outbreak of a pandemic disease. It also assesses the ability of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland (DHS) to respond to a pandemic.
The U.S. Army estimates that if a s…
This handbook describes an ECDC-developed Microsoft Excel tool for the prioritisation of infectious disease threats. The tool is based on multi-criteria decision analysis. It ranks infectious disease threats in a transparent, comparable and methodologically reproducible manner. The tool enables the relative ranking of different infectious disease threat…
This paper aims to share reflections and learning about the urban nature of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak by looking at the case of the urban informal settlement of West Point, Monrovia, Liberia. In doing so, it aims to improve future urban public health responses. It builds on existing learning around the EVD response, focusing on urban issues…
The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separate outbreaks were identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan). H…
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Risks of malaria epidemics in relation to El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events have been mapped and studied at global level. In India, where malaria is a major public health problem, no such effort has been undertaken that inter-relates El Niño, Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) and malaria. The present study has been undertake…
This report by the International Working Group on Financing Preparedness (IWG) proposes ways in which national governments and development partners can finance investments in country and regional preparedness and response capacities for pandemics and other health emergencies.
Deadly infectious pandemics will mark humanity's future, as they have s…
This report explores the growing health risks related to climate change and the coordinated international responses that can help prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change on health.
Climate change presents a risk to health in a variety of ways. The health risks resulting from climate change impacts in countries are changing and the inte…
This report explores the landscape of vaccine industry activity in order to improve immunisation coverage. International agreements, including the Global Vaccine Action Plan and Sustainable Development Goals, set out clear targets to improve access to vaccines worldwide. Achieving these targets requires a coordinated framework of multiple stakehold…
This report provides analysis of the importance of developing a robust pipeline of new drugs, diagnostics, vaccines, and other technologies for diseases likely to become pandemics, and outlines recommendations for action from the US government to prevent the next pandemic.
This paper focuses on the impact of the US' global investments in outbreak prepa…
The aim of this synopsis is to provide a concise introduction to urban climate change resilience, including the core concepts and principles, relevant processes, experiences from implementation, and outcomes sought from a UCCR-based approach. This synopsis communicates the principles, processes, and practices associated with UCCR in a succinct and…
The purpose of this simulation exercise handbook is to support organisations in the public health sector in strengthening their response to events involving communicable diseases, based on effective simulation exercises as a part of preparedness. This handbook is meant to serve as a guide on:
how to guarantee strategic-level support of decision…
This five-year strategic plan (NICCP17-22) aims to coordinate resource mobilization and implementation of priority-targeted cholera prevention and control interventions across all levels (national, district, and community) in Uganda.
The major areas of focus for the plan will be:
Social mobilization and community empowerment (health promotion &…
This publication discusses climate change as a major challenge facing public health. The study explores how national-level public health adaptation is occurring in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, examines the roles of national governments in public health adaptation, and appraises three key governance dimensions o…
This report documents the preliminary scoping exercise, several days of field work and subsequent additional research of a community risk assessment in Los Angeles, Cape Town. It includes detailed information on the hazards identified by Los Angeles community members, their perceptions of the root causes of these hazards, temporal trends and historical…
The environment sector has valuable insight to provide in the prevention, detection and control of epidemic and pandemic threats. This briefing document identifies key areas of engagement for the environment sector in national action planning for health security and One Health initiatives, with the aim of supporting multi-sectoral collaboration to preve…